#192 Word Jazz and Poetry

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Jazz and Poetry have had a long albeit sporadic affinity for another for six decades or more. Word Jazz, a combination
of poetic improvisation mixed with other sounds and jazz was mastered by Ken Nordine. We recently lost Ken, aged 98,
to unforgiving movement of time. In addition to Word Jazz there is also more traditional combinations of poetry and
jazz put forth by Charles Mingus, Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, and others. In this hour we will pay homage to the
passing of Ken as well as dig some of the aural and cerebral permutations of sound that these purveyors from the beat
generation up to the present have happily laid down for us to dwell intently upon.